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This whole thing just gets stranger and stranger. It almost seems as if Ralph has thrown in the towel and said whatever when it comes to making the playoffs in his lifetime.
We have a 91 year old owner, a 70 year old GM, a 58 year old a head coach with a history of heart problems, a coaching staff packed with AARP members, a team that is 0 for the century when it comes to making the playoffs, a fan base that is up in arms, a looming labor lockout, suite leases that are expiring and a 35 plus year old stadium that either needs to be massively updated or replaced, so what’s the plan to turn the team around.
Apparently the plan is to completely blow-up both the offense and defense and build through the draft. Well that may work, but the odds are that most likely the owner, the GM, a good portion of the coaching staff and a good many of the current fans won’t be around to enjoy to the next home playoff game.
Even if Nix is good as he thinks he is, it will take at least 3 great drafts to fill the current holes in the Bills starting roaster, let alone fill holes certain to develop or provide quality depth which this has not had since Levy was the coach. With all this upheaval, the only way the 2010 Bills team is not going to be brutally bad (like this year’s Kansas City Chiefs) is for the Bills to sign a group of high quality free agents to help ease the transition to the 3-4. Nix has already said that is not going to happen. I am not saying that the “draft” plan is bad or that that it won’t work in the long-run, but it won’t be quick and it won’t be pretty.
Why people on the edge of their end would want to go through what is about to come is beyond me.
We have a 91 year old owner, a 70 year old GM, a 58 year old a head coach with a history of heart problems, a coaching staff packed with AARP members, a team that is 0 for the century when it comes to making the playoffs, a fan base that is up in arms, a looming labor lockout, suite leases that are expiring and a 35 plus year old stadium that either needs to be massively updated or replaced, so what’s the plan to turn the team around.
Apparently the plan is to completely blow-up both the offense and defense and build through the draft. Well that may work, but the odds are that most likely the owner, the GM, a good portion of the coaching staff and a good many of the current fans won’t be around to enjoy to the next home playoff game.
Even if Nix is good as he thinks he is, it will take at least 3 great drafts to fill the current holes in the Bills starting roaster, let alone fill holes certain to develop or provide quality depth which this has not had since Levy was the coach. With all this upheaval, the only way the 2010 Bills team is not going to be brutally bad (like this year’s Kansas City Chiefs) is for the Bills to sign a group of high quality free agents to help ease the transition to the 3-4. Nix has already said that is not going to happen. I am not saying that the “draft” plan is bad or that that it won’t work in the long-run, but it won’t be quick and it won’t be pretty.
Why people on the edge of their end would want to go through what is about to come is beyond me.
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